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  Daily Thoughts

January 8th, 2017

Week end Summary: Truth, Rumours and Dragon’s Den. A critical thinking trio

Welcome to 2017 and the first of our weekly summary posts – this week focusing on “Critical Thinking”. We have […]

January 7th, 2017

Trust is (mostly) horizontal. Our organizations are (mostly) vertical. No wonder…

‘People like me’ is a category on its own right in the Edelman Trust Barometer. Multiple sets of data point […]

January 6th, 2017

Behaviours are the syntax of the organization. Values are the grammar. Your space in the world is the story.

Your linguistic and behavioural frame must be in sync. Story, values and behaviours need to be solid and well connected. […]

January 5th, 2017

When I hear ‘this is a culture of consensus’, my Trouble Detector starts blipping

Organizations can have the flu. And it can become epidemic. The epidemic of consensus is one. The conversation often starts […]

January 4th, 2017

Forward to the Past: If this is what your brand-new strategy smells like, do the honourable thing. Kill it.

Your big leadership choice for 2017 is between being the guardian of what has already happened, or the prophet of […]

January 3rd, 2017

Happy New Year! Good to see you again. Just checking in.

Back at 08:00 GMT, my alarm clock, with  ideas left behind with the community of readers, followers, clients, my global […]

December 31st, 2016

Best Of Daily Thoughts 2016 Countdown: The Top 3

Thanks to all those who voted for their favourite Daily Thoughts of 2016 – we compiled the results and here are […]

December 30th, 2016

The Best Of Daily Thoughts 2016 Countdown 10-4

Thanks to all those who voted for their favourite Daily Thoughts of 2016 – we compiled the results and here is […]

December 23rd, 2016

Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (5/5) Forget robust and forget the tanks. It’s guerrilla and its gazelle/cheetah/falcon in the project team.

Renounce adaptation, robustness and even ‘flexibility’ in favour of ‘taking any opportunity to do things you think you could not […]

December 22nd, 2016

Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (4/5) If you are not in crisis, reboot. Declare inflection points. That’s readiness.

Some leaders are very good in a crisis. They may or may not acknowledge that, but the adrenaline of the […]

December 21st, 2016

Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (3/5) The real readiness trick is behavioural. The rest is commentary.

The Four readiness drivers I have mentioned in previous days are: Rapid Reaction and Reconfiguration (RRR) Focus on your ‘social […]

December 20th, 2016

Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (2/5) Readiness is the new capability (just don’t ask what for) and it has four drivers.

The word ‘ready’ has at least 4 meanings in any dictionary:   1. Prepared or available for service, action, or […]

December 19th, 2016

Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (1/5) You never let a crisis go to waste

This is the famous quote by Rahm Emanuel, now mayor or Chicago and before Chief of Staff of Barack Obama: […]

December 17th, 2016

3 Daily Thoughts on: Culture

In the second of our Daily Thoughts summaries this week, I focus on Organizational Culture. Read on for some examples […]

December 16th, 2016

3 Daily Thoughts on: Leadership

Many of you have told us that a regular summary of Daily Thoughts’ posts, focused on certain topics, would be […]

December 14th, 2016

The leader is not an answerphone. Or a help desk.

In our Viral Change™ Programmes, members of the community (company) of activists, invariably ask questions such as, what shall we […]

December 12th, 2016

The curious case of management bad sync: the video and the audio don’t match

This is a pattern that I encounter with many of my clients. Top and less top leadership, of the progressive […]

December 10th, 2016

No revolutions here, we are corporate. Is corporate life shielded in the Era of the Unpredictable?

Here we go again. I keep sounding gloomy these days. I don’t mean to. Promise. The Era of Anger, the […]

December 9th, 2016

Management may be getting a free upgrade to leadership. It’s time to review these categories.

The current theory on the future of management, going around in some circles, (courtesy of Gary Hamel, somebody people pay […]

December 8th, 2016

‘The truth will set you free’, the Bible says. Using a Baloney Detection Kit will keep you sane.

It’s official. Well, it has been now for a little while. “Post-truth” has been named Oxford Dictionaries’ 2016 international word […]